Football today, particularly for the bigger teams in the more successful leagues, is a squad game. Teams have to be prepared for the realities of injuries, fatigue, loss of form, or suspension and have players […]

One of the wonderful things about the DFB Pokal, and indeed cup competitions in many countries, is that it gives teams from the lower leagues an opportunity to match themselves against teams in the top […]

On 25th March, over 18,000 spectators piled into the home of FC Magdeburg to see their team defeat Vfl Osnabrück 2-0 and tighten their grip on the automatic promotion spots in Germany’s 3 Liga. However, […]

Given the variety of colors (especially in a modern context) that are available for clubs to make their own it is occasionally surprising how limited the color palette is for the majority of football teams […]

Those of you who are interested in cars, and particularly high performance engines, might have come across the name AMG. Hans Werner Aufrecht and Erhard Melcher founded the company in 1967 to design and test […]

If you know anything about the federal structure of Germany, you might ask yourself why, as well as the thirteen Flächenländer (the ‘area states’, such as Bavaria, Thuringia, Hesse or Saxony), there are three Stadtstaaten […]